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...year, Cornell's offense packed up and went away, or so the story goes. Quarterback Gary Wood, holder of five Ivy League records, went off to join the New York Giants Placekicker Pete Gogolak, who set a national collegiate record with 44 straight extra points, was shipped to the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League...
West Virginia puts on a demonstration of glass blowing; Montana has a trainload of Western collector's items, including an invitation to a hanging, Calamity Jane's thundermug, and Buffalo Bill's silver-handled toothbrush. Alaska has brought in Chilkat Indians to custom-carve totem poles (at $100 a running foot). General Cigar offers a magic show. Indonesia demonstrates shadow puppets, Oregon runs a lumberjack carnival, Polynesia sells chunks of fresh sugar cane. Socony Mobil tests your reflexes in a simulated driving-hazard test. Sinclair Oil has a forest of dinosaurs, and the Scott pavilion boasts...
Meanwhile West Virginia puts on a demonstration of glass blowing: Montana has a trainload of Western collector's items, including an invitation to a hanging, Calamity Jane's thundermug and Buffalo Bill's silver-handled toothbrush. Alaska has brought in Chilkat Indians to custom-carve totem poles (at $100 a running foot). General Cigar offers a magic show, Indonesia demonstrates shadow puppets, Oregon runs a lumberjack carnival, Polynesia sells chunks of fresh sugar cane, Sinclair Oil has a forest of dinosaurs, and the Scott pavilion boasts the best rest rooms of all, with a diaper-changing room...
...Germany. After graduating from the Cologne Conservatory of Music, he served as conductor of the Cologne and Frankfurt opera houses, came to the U.S. in 1937 at the behest of Arturo Toscanini to be his assistant conductor of the NBC Symphony. In 1945 he was appointed conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic and held that post for seven years before going to Pittsburgh...
Violence in the coal fields was actually diminishing at the time when Pinkerton Agent McParlan, posing as a murderer on the run from Buffalo police, wormed his way into the high councils of the Molly Maguires. It was later charged that McParlan acted as an agent provocateur and deliberately whipped up bloodshed. The attacks also changed character: from reprisals against brutal or dishonest mine bosses, the Mollies turned to capricious, Mafialike assaults on anyone who offended one of their band...